For 27 years, Vanunu has been deprived of his liberty - for blowing the whistle, for telling the truth. It is a moral and geopolitical disgrace. We cannot afford, in good conscience, to forget the plight of Israel's Snowden. To quote the Northern Irish Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire: "We cannot be free while he is not free."

For those of us who thought the Cold War James Bond - 007 era with all of its spying and intrigue was over, the latest revelations that the US National Security Agency - NSA - has been spying on America's "friends" has disabused us of that idea. Spying is clearly alive and well.

He may be the 044 President of the United States, but Obama is proving to be a piss-poor 007 when it comes to the spying game. So here's a handy cut-out-and-keep guide on surveillance that even a president could follow.